President Trump said Thursday that Congress may have to step in to stop people from filing lawsuits in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which he said seems to routinely rule against his policies.
Trump has been battling the 9th Circuit in the nearly two years he’s been in office. This week, a California judge blocked Trump’s effort to deny migrants the ability to seek asylum if they enter the U.S. outside a formal point of entry.
Trump said people who oppose his border plans have relied on 9th Circuit rulings to thwart him, and said Congress might be asked to step in to make the file legal arguments elsewhere.
“Everybody files in the 9th Circuit,” Trump told reporters in Florida. “I haven’t seen anybody file anyplace else. They automatically go to the 9th Circuit.”
“I think we’re going to have to stop and somehow the judges are going to have to get together, or Congress is going to have to get together and stop it,” he added. “Because they’re taking advantage of our country by filing consistently and always, just about that I see, in the 9th Circuit.”
Trump said despite the efforts of his adversaries, he’s been able to toughen up the border.
“The border’s coming along very well, it’s become very strong,” he said. “We’re getting some terrible decisions from the 9th Circuit, as usual.”
“I don’t know if we’ve ever had a victory in the 9th Circuit,” he added. “We have to appeal it, appeal it. A vast number of their decisions get overturned, generally speaking.”
